Software Engineer, Agents

Mirage
Union Square +1 more
On-site

Who this role is best for

A natural match if you have experience designing agentic systems and working in AI video technology.

Best fit for

  • Candidates with experience in building agentic systems for creative workflows and ML infrastructure
    — “designing and building agentic systems that power creative workflows for short-form video”
  • Individuals with a track record of deploying ML models in production environments
    — “a track record of designing and developing ML systems or agentic pipelines in production”
  • Professionals with a strong grasp of context engineering and RAG systems
    — “Deep experience with context engineering: RAG systems, token optimization, context management at scale”
  • Engineers who have operated at senior or staff+ scope in prior roles
    — “we are currently hiring engineers who have operated at senior or staff+ scope”

Things to consider

  • In-person presence at the NYC HQ is required for most roles
    — “most of our roles will require you to be in-person at our NYC HQ”
  • The role involves working across product, machine-learning, and systems engineering domains
    — “Software Engineers on the agents team work across product, machine-learning, and systems engineering”

How to stand out

  • Highlight your experience with end-to-end agentic system development in your resume and interviews
    — “Build and ship end-to-end agentic systems that meaningfully improve creative workflows”
  • Showcase your ability to integrate state-of-the-art models with both internal and external tools
    — “Integrate state-of-the-art models, combining internal research and external capabilities”
  • Emphasize your background in evaluating and improving agent performance in production
    — “Measure and improve agent quality in production, using experimentation, evaluation frameworks”
  • Demonstrate your experience with multi-step planning and context gathering for agents
    — “Experience building evaluation systems and agentic infrastructure (context gathering, tool selection, multi-step planning)”
  • Position yourself as someone who can shape the future of AI-native video tools
    — “help shape how AI agents reduce friction, accelerate learning, and unlock new creative possibilities”
Pace · Fast PacedCollaboration · HighAutonomy · MediumDecision Impact · Team

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What success looks like

  • meaningful improvements to creative workflows
  • reliable agent execution at scale
Typical background
senior or staff+ scope in software engineering

Skills & requirements

Required

Agentic SystemsAgent ArchitecturesState-of-the-art Model IntegrationProduction Quality Measurement

Preferred

Experience With AI Video EditingKnowledge Of Generative Video Models

Stack & domain

Agentic SystemsCreative WorkflowsAI AgentsEmerging ModelsMachine LearningSystems EngineeringLive-service WorkPlayer DataEconomic ModelingDesign And BalancingPlayer Behavior AnalysisGame EconomyMonetizationGame AnalyticsBI ToolsDesign AssumptionsBalance ParametersEconomic ModelsSimulationsCalculationsDesign DocumentationFeature Performance EvaluationAI VideoGenerative MediaCreative ToolsAi-native Video ToolsMultimodal AgentsRendering EnginesGenerative Video Models

About the role

Original posting from Mirage via Ashby

Mirage is an AI video company focused on making creation dramatically easier. Our team tackles some of the hardest creative and technical challenges in generative media.

We get to rethink how people collaborate with AI that can actually do creative work with them—defining entirely new interaction paradigms for AI-native video tools. We make that possible by building multimodal agents that turn creative direction into edits, rendering engines that composite multiple layers of video and graphics, and generative video models trained from the ground up that create new media when needed.

All of this comes together in Captions, our creative workspace for generating, editing, and designing video. The technology behind Captions is now available more broadly: Tesseract gives any AI agent native video-editing capabilities, while developers can integrate our models into their own products through APIs.

Explore our work

Captions https://apps.apple.com/us/app/captions-ai-edits-your-video/id1541407007 — Our flagship creative workspace

Tesseract https://x.com/trymirage/status/2102429594804429138 — Our professional video engine for AI agents

Research https://mirage.app/research?utm_source=chatgpt.com — The foundation models we build in-house

Updates https://x.com/trymirage — The latest from Mirage

TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/24/mirage-raises-75m-to-continue-building-models-for-its-ai-video-editing-app-captions/, Forbes https://www.forbes.com/companies/captions/?list=ai50, Fast Company https://www.fastcompany.com/91270234/video-most-innovative-companies-fast-company-2025-youtube-roku-tubi-vimeo-captions-descript-cour-procreate-synthesia-beeble — Press

Our Investors

We’re very fortunate to have some the best investors and entrepreneurs backing us, including Index Ventures, Kleiner Perkins, Sequoia Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, General Catalyst, Uncommon Projects, Kevin Systrom, Mike Krieger, Lenny Rachitsky, Antoine Martin, Julie Zhuo, Ben Rubin, Jaren Glover, SVAngel, 20VC, Ludlow Ventures, Chapter One, and more.

Please note that most of our roles will require you to be in-person at our NYC HQ (located in Union Square)

About the role

This role focuses on designing and building agentic systems that power creative workflows for short-form video. You'll help shape how AI agents reduce friction, accelerate learning, and unlock new creative possibilities for our users — building agents that can take creative actions on a user's behalf — while experimenting with emerging models and techniques to bring these experiences to life in production.

Software Engineers on the agents team work across product, machine-learning, and systems engineering — owning meaningful problems end-to-end and helping define how our agents are built and deployed across the product.

While we don’t use hierarchical titles or levels internally, we are currently hiring engineers who have operated at senior or staff+ scope.

Responsibilities

  • Build and ship end-to-end agentic systems that meaningfully improve creative workflows, balancing quality, performance, and reliability
  • Design agent architectures — how agents gather context, plan, select tools, and execute creative tasks reliably at scale
  • Integrate state-of-the-art models, combining internal research and external capabilities to power new agent experiences
  • Measure and improve agent quality in production, using experimentation, evaluation frameworks, and real-world feedback to guide iteration

What Makes You a Great Fit

  • 5+ years of professional industry experience
  • A track record of designing and developing ML systems or agentic pipelines in production
  • Deep experience with context engineering: RAG systems, token optimization, context management at scale
  • Experience building evaluation systems and agentic infrastructure (context gathering, tool selection, multi-step planning)
  • Exceptional problem solving fundamentals and ability to learn quickly in a rapidly evolving space
  • Able to operate effectively in an extremely fast-paced environment and scope and deliver projects end-to-end

Even better if...

  • You have worked with multi-agent architectures
  • You have experience fine-tuning LLMs for specific use cases
  • You have a pulse on where generative media and agentic AI technology is going
  • You are grounded, collaborative, and willing to do whatever it takes to help the team win
  • You have been a startup founder or an early engineer at one

BENEFITS:

  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans
  • 401K with employer match
  • Commuter Benefits
  • Catered lunch multiple days per week
  • Dinner stipend every night if you're working late and want a bite!
  • Grubhub subscription
  • Health & Wellness Perks
  • Multiple team offsites per year with team events every month
  • Generous PTO policy

Captions provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

Please note benefits apply to full time employees only.

Source: Mirage careers (Ashby)

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